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Stolen property (of any kind) is very low priority. Stolen firearms ups to priority rating a few numbers but not by much.

What makes this a high priority is that it was "in progress." Chances are she'll never see her property again. This is why you need to have renters insurance/homeowners insurance as well as the separate firearms insurance.

Yeah, I mean obviously we should investigate and solve all crimes, but you gotta prioritize the big/dangerous stuff first. Cops probably aren't going to find your stolen xbox or whatever, because they have bigger fish to fry.

Officers would love to find stolen property. One of the best feelings in the world is the thanks you get when you return property to a victim. The problem is finding it. How many of you have written down in a safe place ALL serial numbers from EVERY piece of expensive electronic property you have? Don't forget to include pictures of the property as well as make, manufacturer, and serial number.

90% of victims don't have this information which makes the stolen property incredibly difficult to track down. Additionally most burglaries are never witnessed by anyone. And the DOJ lab could give a rats ass about the fingerprints you found on a window when they have thousands of murders and rapes to process before your past tense residential burglary.

Firearms are SLIGHTLY easier because the federal government REQUIRES you to submit all of that information to a database before you take possession of the firearm.

Best bet is to be a hard target for would-be burglars. Even if you have valuable property, if your house has a clear line of sight to the street (so your neighbors can always see whats going on), a security camera system (cheap ones available at costco), fully-fenced backyard (6 ft +), heavy duty door+frame, bared windows, alarm system, etc. you can bet burglars will pick a different house to rob.

More priority might be placed on it if a weapon was stolen. Xboxes and Playstations can be replaced, but a gun can be used to murder somebody. The cops will more than likely be more urgent about this because of it.

They may "look in to it" but electronics in general are almost never recovered unless they are brought to a pawn shop and you have the original serial numbers on file.

I was robbed at gunpoint by five people who ended up taking my phone, my wallet, a Laptop, Xbox and all games/controllers, my shoes, a camcorder, a carton of cigerettes, a bottle of Jack, and two couch cushions (after I told them i would call the police because their fingerprints were everywhere, they decided to take my couch cushions. Fuckin idiots).

Anyways long story short: The detectives never found shit and I was out $2000 and never received any compensation. Cops never found anyone, and I've never seen them before or after (the criminals or the detectives).

I was pissed off. It was an hour long event and I was so angry because at one point I realized no one was going to shoot me. They were scared and I could tell, but I couldn't fight five different guys. I didn't want to have to go to the hospital as well. But they flipped over everything in my house, even tipped my fridge over to look behind it. I left this part out because...well I'm embarrassed about it...but they were there looking for drugs. I was at a low point in my life selling marijuana and I happened to meet a kid at a skatepark who I opened my mouth too much to. He had been to my house once to "smoke up" and a few days later these fools came breaking down my door. I didn't have anything at the time THANK GOD, so that's why they took a bunch of electronics, because they couldn't find any drugs.

This is where a good safe comes in handy. When I bought mine, the salesman was genuinely surprised that I was in there buying a safe preemptively. Apparently 90%+ of his customers come in after they're robbed.

The robbers have to be someone they know or at least someone that has seen them with the guns. Its strange that they went straight for the guns n nothing else. Unless there was other stuff taken, then it would be some regular robber.

It could have still been in the house, I was looking after someone's cat a few years back, and I'd go over there to feed it, but the whole week I never actually saw the cat. The food bowl would get emptied, but never could figure out where that fucker would go and hide, and let me tell you I looked.

Took me a year to realize my cat had torn a small hole under my bed and was hiding in the box spring. Dude has disappeared for days. He also sleeps like the dead so... yeah probably just hid and fell asleep.

When I was in college, my roommate and I walked into our fraternity house at 2am to find two burglars trying to detach our TV from the wall in the billiards room. They freaked out when they saw us and tried to confront us, so I knocked one of them out with the back end of a pool cue while the other one fled the property, and then we called the police.

My house has been broken into like at least 2 times this year alone while people were at the house. There's some dude in my neighborhood (college town) that goes door to door checking to see if they're unlocked, usually the early morning on weekends (while people are sleeping off their hang overs) or during the afternoon on class days (while kids are at class). When he gets caught, like he usually does, it usually goes something like:

Kid: "Who the fuck are you and why are you in my house?"

Burglar: "Oh, does.... [insert random name] live here?"

Kid: "No, I'm calling the cops"

Burglar: "No need to do that. My bad. I'll leave."

Cops know he's broken into multiple houses this week alone and do nothing about it. He stole my house mates XBOX ONE and we got an email a day or so later with the IP address he used to connect it to the internet, gave it to the detective handling the case, and nothing gets done.

TL;DR: Crack makes people do crazy things.

Edit: Before the inevitable "cops are pigs" circle jerk starts, to be fair the situation around here is super complicated. Basically a university promised to patrol the area, went back on that, police didn't have the resources to compensate (gotta love funding cuts), and some pretty major gangs/drug trafficking have moved in.

2 - Yes, there are lots of reasons people leave their doors unlocked. None of them are good reasons when you live in a neighborhood notorious for crime and you know that burglars look for unlocked doors in your neighborhood.

3 - "...but people can break into locked doors" derrrr oh really, boss??? I was replying to a comment made by someone who said they did not lock their doors and again they knew burglars stalked the neighborhood looking for negligent students who make this mistake.

4 - Get fucking renter's insurance. Sure a gun might be nice, but it's not worth dying over your worldly possessions. Give the assholes what they want and then get your insurance agency to replace it.

A lot of college students don't. Its a pain in the ass trying to convince the people I live with to lock the house, and it never happens.

"But someone is always home"

"But I'm expecting XYZ to come over in the next hour"

For fuck's sake, they can knock on the door and you have keys to the house. I swear I'm going to start hiding expensive stuff they leave out, make them think it was stolen, and then give it back once they start locking the house when they leave.

My neighbors are college students, about 5 of them rent a house. They all left for the summer and when they did they left all doors unlocked. They even left the garage door handle clearly in the unlocked position. All of their shit is still in there, I can see the TV and stereo in the window. Also lots of bongs in other windows. Fucking idiots.

Basically a university promised to patrol the area, went back on that, police didn't have the resources to compensate (gotta love funding cuts), and some pretty major gangs/drug trafficking have moved in.

The University that I want to sent out a couple mass emails warning all students about a guy who was stealing cars. He was walking into unlocked student apartments and taking their car keys or whatever. Don't underestimate college kids, they don't do all kinds of things go that most people think are common sense.

Cops and tech never a good mix. Moms house got robbed took her comp, had Logmein installed got the IP address TWICE from two different locations. Told the cops and it was like a deer in the headlights, they just want to walk around pawn shops and lean on the counter and have some witty conversation with the owner....sffrustrating.

^ This. When I was younger we lived next door to a shop, the owners went on holiday one week and we heard their burglar alarm going off, so my mum calls the police, they tell her that they won't even arrive at the scene unless we go into the shop first to make sure it's actually being burgled.

my dad's place got broken into a few years ago, i showed the police the burglars footprints, i showed them where they left fingerprints, they weren't interested. they pretty much said "it sucks but we're not going to do anything"

If you observe something that truly requires emergency assistance (i.e. immediate threats to someone's life or safety) and you are logged into the chatroom, you can type in /emergency and any online admins will be notified of the channel in question. This is like dialing 911, so don't use it to report things that you may find offensive, but that aren't actually emergencies! Admins will know who sent the alert, and will take action against abusers.

I think a lot more people need to know this. Not that this kind of fucked up shit happens often, but what if something happens to a caster with ~50 viewers, and by chance none of the viewers know this command.

The main problem is, as opposed to other sites, and - of course - Reddit, that Youtube comments don't have downvotes/dislikes.

So if 150 perverted fucks all go to the same video, even with 1M+ views, and all like the same offensive comment, it will be the top comment, even though 15'000 people disagree with it.

There's only a way to show appreciation, but no way to show dislike, except by commenting. Something a lot of people - including me - don't have the time or the energy to do, and which simply make the comment in question gain more attention.

Good link. Nothing really happens until 7:20 of the video and at 15:49. It looked like he turned off the lights at 15:49 so he could remove the webcam without being seen. Not really sure. Also noticed that it was really quiet throughout the whole video except the beginning when the streamer realised that something was up.

They had no clue. Only people watching the game were watching the stream so they were getting info from them. They couldn't even see her stream. They most certainly did attempt something once the information was relayed to them though, so they shouldn't be thought of as wrong or unhelpful.

it is because dislike button does nothing on youtube. if you like something it is basically "G+" but disliking will not remove g+ from comments..... so 1000 people might disliked it but it will show only likes and puts it on top because number of responses. it is just fucked up system that makes trolling more successful.

This is so true. Before the G+ implementation a dislike was actually a dislike, and much more importantly, your placement in the comments was based solely on time. Now it rides on your number of likes and replies, so even if you have an opinion that isn't popular and only has a few likes, if a bunch of people respond to it it'll be one of the first things you see.
It's kind of fucked up. I know it sounds weird to say, but the quality of Youtube comments actually dropped down A LOT when G+ was forced in.

chances are, some redditors (or /r/cringe lurkers) may have left some bad comments on the youtube video linked in the reddit link above (which has since been removed). can't say it triggered the shooting, but for sure wouldn't help the kid's situation..

(note: it was not his retribution video, but a 'why do girls not like me' video).

I worked with a guy who shot a robber to death on his front porch. I guess he lived near a crack house, and routinely had people breaking into his car and house. One day he was home and his car was in the shop, so someone tried to kick the front door in. He grabbed a 9mm, and ran to the door just as it came open. The robber had a bag in one hand, and a "crocodile Dundee" knife in the other, so my friend just started shooting at him, apparently from just a few yards away.

The robber ran off, my buddy called the police, and they didn't show up for an hour. They took his statement, took pictures of the blood spatter on the ground, and that was it. Said they would get him at the hospital. Treated it like it was no big deal. Week later someone found the guy a quarter mile away dead in a shed or something, then of course the police got all butthurt and started threatening him with murder charges and all sorts of bullshit.

Eventually they dropped it and chalked it up to self defense, the robber had a rap sheet a mile long, and my buddy was just a normal guy with no priors.

The worst part was the way the newspapers treated it. He showed me clippings from the local paper, it was horrifying. He is balding so he shaved his head completely, he is white, and the robber was black. The paper headline said something like, "Skinhead guns down petty criminal in botched robbery." Then they included anon sources and neighbors who said my buddy was a reclusive angry "militia" type, and of course the would be robber was a great guy, just down on his luck, having a bad year. No mention of the fucking sword the dude was carrying, which the cops found in the bushes, at all. No mentioning that my friend was in the Navy reserves , despite allowing sources to describe him as militant.

And of course when it was eventually closed and the shooting declared justified, the paper buried it in the back.

I didn't believe any of this until he showed me all the documents and newspaper stuff. I was naive and couldn't believe that both the police and press could be so completely incompetent and crooked. Very naive.

You can sue anyone for anything, the question is whether you would be successful.

In this situation, it would be iffy at best. You probably wouldn't have to worry about proving actual malice, since he probably wouldn't reach the level of a public figure. But he would have to prove at the very least a sufficient degree of negligence on the part of the publisher. And if they simply interviewed his neighbors and reprinted their impressions of him, it is improbable that a jury would find negligence there. In many states, the burden would be even higher - some level of gross negligence - since he was involved in a newsworthy event.

When you are talking about newspapers and defamation, it's not just as simple as "was their report true?"

Very sad to hear how your friend was treated. It's pathetic when I hear people say "just because they broke into your house does not mean they deserve to die." While that may be true, I'm not about to sit around the wait to see if the home invader decides to cause harm to me or my family.

Yep. I don't understand the mentality behind comments like this, and probably never will. Even more so though, I don't understand the likes for these comments. Is this what "offensive humour" has degenerated to?

I always wondering who type these kind of comments. I just can't see myself saying something like "I hope you die" even more so when there's a real possibility of it actually happening. No matter how anonymous I would be, who think it's okay to say something like that? That's not trolling, that's not humour, that's just you being complete sick low-life, nothing else

Youtubers make Redditors look like saints....I feel insane: looking through youtube comments and expecting something different each time. It's like you've stepped out of your local pub with some occasional bad mouthing into an alleyway of meth addicts pointing guns at you...
I will never question another down vote again.

A while ago I made the mistake of trying to educate some people in the youtube comments about about Hitler being nominated as Man of the Year 1938. As answers I got the whole mix of "Hitler was a great politician", "The jews deserved what happened to them", "There's no proof that the Holocaust ever happened", etc. It's horrifying

yeah, don't let it get to you. Comments on there are the only reason I was slightly happy that Google+ existed. The quantity of them went down a lot when people realised they were attached to your real name.

I have been waiting for a video like this to show up since twitch became big. This is an irrational fear of mine when I play games with headphones on. I hope no one was harmed physically. I know they won't be the same mentally for a while.